{"id":17532,"date":"2020-12-07T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/public\/?p=17117"},"modified":"2020-12-07T09:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T17:19:50","slug":"does-alcohol-cause-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/does-alcohol-cause-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2016, Dr. Jennie Connor, physician and chair in Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand, released the study Alcohol Consumption as a Cause of Cancer. Her work was a compilation of hundreds of meta-analyses from around the world, each one studying alcohol as a cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/consumer-portal\/resources\/cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cancer<\/a>. A meta-analysis\u00a0 combines the results from multiple studies in an effort to increase validity (as opposed to one individual study), improving estimates of the size of the effect and accuracy. Dr. Connor\u2019s study reviewed thousands of individual studies.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Connor was commissioned to do this research by the journal \u201cAddiction\u201d a product of the SSA &#8211; Society for the Study of Addictions. Her Conclusions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is strong evidence that alcohol causes cancer at seven sites in the body and probably others<\/li>\n<li>Once thought protection from <a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/conditions\/fitness-cardiovascular-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cardiovascular disease<\/a> associated with drinking is now under great skepticism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17118\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/alcohol-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"alcohol\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>The Interview with Dr. Connor explored her findings with the intent of showing the\u00a0 epidemiological evidence that supports the judgment that alcohol causes cancer of the oropharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, colon, rectum and breast. Some of the major highlights of the interview include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cmoderation\u201d appears to encourage drinking<\/li>\n<li>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/consumer-portal\/resources\/breast-cancer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">breast cancers<\/a> from alcohol occurred in women who were \u201cmoderate\u201d drinkers<\/li>\n<li>Younger women drinking &#8211; the added breast cancer risk<\/li>\n<li>The carcinogenic effects of alcohol start at the first drink<\/li>\n<li>The multi faceted ways alcohol leads to disease and kills<\/li>\n<li>Neurotoxicity<\/li>\n<li>The effects of heavy episodic drinking &#8211; binge drinking and pancreatic cancer<\/li>\n<li>Multiple carcinogens of wine<\/li>\n<li>And no, a glass of wine a day is not healthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can listen to the interview at Shira&#8217;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/bestinhealthradio.com\/alcohol-causes-cancer-doubt-protection-from-cvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best In Health Radio<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/about\/industry-experts\/shira-litwack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shira Litwack<\/a> is the Director of International Relations and Master Trainer at, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecancerspecialist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cancer Exercise Training Institute<\/a> and creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/bestinhealthradio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best in Health Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2016, Dr. Jennie Connor, physician and chair in Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin, New Zealand, released the study Alcohol Consumption as a Cause of Cancer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":17118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,72],"tags":[28,89,193],"class_list":["post-17532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","category-conditions","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-healthy-aging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}